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Topic Title: Colonial Pipeline pays hackers $4M-$5M to get pipeline back online: report
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Fish Killer

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Colonial Pipeline pays hackers $4M-$5M to get pipeline back online: report
Colonial Pipeline supplies almost half of the East Coast's gasoline
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By Jonathan Garber

Biden delivers remarks on the Colonial Pipeline incident
President Biden delivers remarks on the Colonial Pipeline incident.

Colonial Pipeline Co. likely paid more than $4 million to hackers in order to get its pipeline back up and running.

"The payments have been made to the terrorists," billionaire John Catsimatidis, told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo on Thursday morning. "I understand from my sources that $4 million was paid."

A restarting of the pipeline will in the next few days help restore the flow of gasoline across the Eastern part of the U.S where fuel shortages are abundant. The 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline, which transports more than 100 million gallons of fuel per day, or almost half of the East Coast's supply, was taken offline on Friday by a Russian hacking group called DarkSide that demanded $100 million ransom.

About 68% of gas stations in North Carolina reported fuel outages, according to Gas Buddy. Roughly half of the gas stations in Georgia, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Virginia also reported outages.

Catsimatidis added that the pipeline "will be flowing by Monday at the latest."


Bloomberg News reported later Thursday, citing two people familiar with the transaction, that Colonial paid the hackers nearly $5 million.

Once the payment was made, in untraceable cryptocurrency, the hackers gave the pipeline operator a decrypting tool to restore the network, according to the Bloomberg report.

Colonial Pipeline declined to comment when contacted by FOX Business. A Department of Energy spokesperson referred FOX Business to Colonial Pipeline.

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Edited: 05/13/2021 at 09:41 AM by Fish Killer
 05/13/2021 10:17 AM
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Edited: 05/13/2021 at 10:19 AM by nukeh2o
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There is a dipshit that missed the middle of the fraud.........

Biden

Both are morons!

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 05/14/2021 05:08 AM
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Cyber security: It's a very real thing.

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Fish Killer

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Originally posted by: Cole

Cyber security: It's a very real thing.


Then why exactly hasn't DEMENTIA JOE used any of it to protect ANYTHING?!?!

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 05/14/2021 01:23 PM
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I suspect that Dementia Joe is behind this payment. He is lurching from self caused crisis to self-caused crisis and is looking like the enffeble moron that he is. But one thing you cannot get away with with Americans is to take away their gas. Somewhere in his damaged mind, he understood that. I am guessing that the Biden administration, as opposed to Colonial, paid the $5 million.

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 05/14/2021 05:18 PM
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Originally posted by: Fish Killer

Originally posted by: Cole



Cyber security: It's a very real thing.




Then why exactly hasn't DEMENTIA JOE used any of it to protect ANYTHING?!?!



It's a private company.

Are you really saying the federal government should take control of the corporate cyber world?

"I am guessing that the Biden administration, as opposed to Colonial, paid the $5 million." - dunderhead PAUL

Private profits, public debt. Just another case of corporate welfare.



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Edited: 05/14/2021 at 05:20 PM by Cole
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Originally posted by: Cole

Originally posted by: Fish Killer



Originally posted by: Cole







Cyber security: It's a very real thing.








Then why exactly hasn't DEMENTIA JOE used any of it to protect ANYTHING?!?!






It's a private company.



Are you really saying the federal government should take control of the corporate cyber world?



"I am guessing that the Biden administration, as opposed to Colonial, paid the $5 million." - dunderhead PAUL



Private profits, public debt. Just another case of corporate welfare.


Our government probably DID pay the 5 million!

FOOL!

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Originally posted by: Fish Killer

Originally posted by: Cole



Originally posted by: Fish Killer







Originally posted by: Cole















Cyber security: It's a very real thing.
















Then why exactly hasn't DEMENTIA JOE used any of it to protect ANYTHING?!?!












It's a private company.







Are you really saying the federal government should take control of the corporate cyber world?







"I am guessing that the Biden administration, as opposed to Colonial, paid the $5 million." - dunderhead PAUL







Private profits, public debt. Just another case of corporate welfare.




Our government probably DID pay the 5 million!



FOOL!


"probably". you are the FOOL. FACT!

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Originally posted by: sandi

Originally posted by: Fish Killer



Originally posted by: Cole







Originally posted by: Fish Killer















Originally posted by: Cole































Cyber security: It's a very real thing.
































Then why exactly hasn't DEMENTIA JOE used any of it to protect ANYTHING?!?!
























It's a private company.















Are you really saying the federal government should take control of the corporate cyber world?















"I am guessing that the Biden administration, as opposed to Colonial, paid the $5 million." - dunderhead PAUL















Private profits, public debt. Just another case of corporate welfare.








Our government probably DID pay the 5 million!







FOOL!




"probably". you are the FOOL. FACT!



SMELLY, SMELLY fish...


HE SAID, "PROBABLY," like it was a fact. what an idiot...
 05/14/2021 09:40 PM
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Originally posted by: Fish Killer

Originally posted by: Cole



Cyber security: It's a very real thing.




Then why exactly hasn't DEMENTIA JOE used any of it to protect ANYTHING?!?!


Are you really saying the federal government should take control of the corporate cyber world?



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 05/15/2021 08:44 AM
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Fish Killer

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Originally posted by: Cole

Originally posted by: Fish Killer



Originally posted by: Cole







Cyber security: It's a very real thing.








Then why exactly hasn't DEMENTIA JOE used any of it to protect ANYTHING?!?!




Are you really saying the federal government should take control of the corporate cyber world?


NO...I'm saying that the government should PROTECT our NATIONAL fuel supply!

What you state and what needs to be done are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

MORON!

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You are saying the federal government should dictate directions to private corporations?

You can't have it both ways you fucking moron.

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 05/15/2021 08:17 PM
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Fish Killer

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Originally posted by: Cole

You are saying the federal government should dictate directions to private corporations?



You can't have it both ways you fucking moron.


Nope I'm saying the government should REQUIRE any company that supplies a vast amount of public consumable energy to show PROOF that it is thoroughly protecting itself from being hacked!

It's called REGULATION......

YOU FUCKING MORON!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
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Edited: 05/15/2021 at 08:18 PM by Fish Killer
 05/17/2021 03:46 PM
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They want private entities to regulate themselves but also not be liable for their mistakes. Then they say the government should have been regulating if something hits them personally. Kind of like wanting to shut down the EPA until Lake Okeechobee is one big fetid cyanobacteria bloom or a phosphate gyp stack fails in some spectacular fashion. Then they want to know where was the government. So we have them here wanting in bold font for the government to regulate an industry to protect a commodity. I wonder if they would support the massive fines that would be needed to make the regulation enforceable of the taxes that would need to be collected to fund the enforcement agency. Shouldn't market forces give the oil company sufficient incentive to regulate itself.

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Yo...TWIT...who 'regulates' the oil companies?

Who regulates the electric companies?

Who regulates the gas companies?

MORON!

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Originally posted by: Fish Killer

Originally posted by: Cole

Cyber security: It's a very real thing.


Then why exactly hasn't DEMENTIA JOE used any of it to protect ANYTHING?!?!


Wasn't Trump in charge during the Russian Solar Winds hack?
Nothing important stolen there.
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They are against regulation until they are for it. You can't ever get any kind of consistency from these MAGATs.

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Fish Killer

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Originally posted by: scombrid

They are against regulation until they are for it. You can't ever get any kind of consistency from these MAGATs.


Some things HAVE to be regulated!

Thats a FACT!

(most dont)

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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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Some things HAVE to be regulated!

Thats a FACT!

(most dont)


Man, are you an idiot. lol

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